Hacker News on 31 December 2008

• How To Be Creative
• How to roll your own Mac for under $240
• Are all the MS Zunes dying?
• Living on the edge of academia
• Microsoft getting ready to lay off 17% of staff
• Self Awareness, the Last Frontier. By V. S. Ramachandran
• Scribd Had A Blowout Year, And So Did the Web Document
• Tell HN: Happy New Year
• John Carmack's Tesla Review at End of Latest Armadillo Update
• Are mutts like me welcome on HN?